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Shep Smith of Fox News challenging Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) on why the public option will allow for the type of reform that the country needs. Why is this notable? Well, Shep Smith is from Fox News. Fox News' general stance on the public option (which they call the "government run option") appears to be going against the effort (link here and link here - Youtube). Upwards of 60% of the country is in favor of the public (non-profit) option. Apparently Shepard Smith agrees.
Watch the exchange below:
Here's a key exerpt from the exchange:
SMITH: "Over the last ten years health care costs in America have skyrocketed. Regular folks cannot afford it. So, they tax the system by not getting preventative medicine. They go to the emergency room in the last case and we all wind up paying for it. As the costs have gone up, the insurance industry's profits, on average, have gone up more than 350%. And it is the insurance companies which have paid, and who have contributed to Senators and Congressmen on both sides of the aisle to the point where now we cannot get what all concerned on Capitol Hill seem to believe and more 60% of Americans say they would support, which is a public option. This has been an enormous win for the health-care industry, that is an unquestioned fact. But I wonder, what happens to the American people when we come out with legislation now which requires everyone to have health care insurance -- or many more people -- but does not give a public option? Therefore millions more people will have to buy insurance from the very corporations that are overcharging us, and whose profits have gone up 350 percent in the last ten years. It seems like we the people are the ones getting the shaft here. ... But with every vote against the public option is a vote for the insurance companies, sir, it is." (Huffington Post)
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